YoungUpstarts
JUNE 27, 2020
Usually, these offshore suppliers are in Asia, (India, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines), Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia), or Africa (Morocco, Kenya and South Africa). With an international team, you may have to wait days before you get a word back, substantially reducing productivity.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.
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This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 27, 2010
Failure to do so relieves the makers of The Apple iTablet, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability. The Apple iTablet has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is being dropped by warplanes.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
The need for an alternative to our current meat production is becoming more apparent with each passing day. What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000. J: One that sticks out for me was from my time in Afghanistan.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 4, 2014
How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2017
In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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